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DNN Community Forums 09.08.00 RC1 Now Available !!

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johnhenley

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5/13/2026 5:44 PM

Release candidate for version 09.08.00 of DNN Community Forums is now available for your testing and review.

Remember, this is a release candidate, not for production use.

Download DNN Community Forums 09.08.00 RC1

This one feels like it should be a MAJOR release!

NEW: Community Forums now ships with its own editor (based on TipTap) to replace the outdated CKEditor used in DNN; enabled by default on new installs; must be enabled after upgrading existing sites (Editor Selection wiki page)
ENHANCED: Community Forums posts (from publicly-readable forums) included in DNN Portal site map now use algorithmic ranking for priority and frequency based on recency of post and replies, number of likes, etc. (Site Map wiki page)
ENHANCED: The "URL Rewriter" module used for friendly URLs has been significantly overhauled to address maintainability, scalability, and performance issues (PR 1885)
ENHANCED: "Filtered topics" pages now include "time frame" dropdown (i.e. see only unread topics for past month), options are now more dynamic (e.g., "announcements" and "most likes" are only shown if applicable) and have much better performance (PR 1888)
ENHANCED: Content shown using the "What's New" module is now cached to improve performance (PR 1890)

See our list of changes here.

If you can, please test and let us know if any issues. If you encounter issues, or have questions, please open an issue on GitHub.

Marco Alvarado

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5/15/2026 1:50 PM

Nice updates man!

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